A large police presence, including South Carolina State troopers, prevented multiple groups of protesters from clashing as demonstrations intensified on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (CREDITS: Jessica Koscielniak

The Heritage Act, which the Legislature amended on July 9, 2015, in order to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds — a mandate carried out on a sunny morning one year ago Sunday, in a solemn seven-minute ceremony attended by 10,000 and punctuated by understandable but unseemly cheers and chants.